Southern Maine Writing Project

wow!

so easy to do.......www.wordle.com....if you've never seen it.  :)

This idea -- the students need to take ownership, sift through their learning and make sense of their triumphs and challenges.  We feel that this is a VERY meaningful learning experience.

Amen!

One of the most important aspects for us about portfolios is that reflection happens - putting portfolio together is not just making a checklist - it is thinking about your learning - the metacognition.

Great question!

Good idea!

I agree

The audience should be defined ahead of time so students can develop the portfolio w/this audience in mind

authentic audience, yes

Pre teach HOW TO curate and organize, maybe develop a template for this - but then it is up to the student to take this on - it is their work

Display an exemplar (teacher made)

Move student from passive learner to active learner. Making authentic meaning of their respective learning, student directed, not teacher lead...

I agree.

One of the BEST parts of my job!!!  

Holy Cow!  Now I think that I need to create my own digital portfolio!  Yikes.  This may cause some marital strife ;)  I tend to dive into these things and then not come up for air until I am done and it is perfect.

Yes!! Can't wait to try it so I can show my students.

Creating a personal portfolio as an exemplar to model for students would be a way to guide students' learning

That is great!  I kept my portfolio from ETEP and have often shown them my own portfolio.  But perhaps creating my own writing portfolio would be helpful and show that this is something that writers do -- not just students.

As a content area teacher, I use e-portfolios in place of lab notebooks.  All the students lab reports are housed in a digital setting.  So my goals and vision for e-portfolios are much more singular.

Something our district is looking at doing. Spotty digital portfolios now. MYP and IB require reflection!

Some students will take the bull by the horns and make the most of the features of the portfolio process and program. Of course others will just go through the motions to get it done. Either way, the process of creating is what's important - the generation of a body of work that the student will consider and the process of accomplishing the task as well.

This is my concern with moving in the direction of an ePortfolio. I've seen this happen with "paper" portfolios time and time again. Lots of work is put into it and when it's finished parents see it as a "keepsake" and still want a "grade". How do we change this culture? How do we assist parent and administrators.